2 Reports You Might Enjoy in Oracle SQL Developer

I keep telling people our reporting functionality is probably the most powerful AND overlooked feature in SQL Developer.

Today I’m going to share 2 reports that I frequently forget about, that you may enjoy.

Finding Unindexed Foreign Keys

We all know this should not happen. We all know it eventually happens. Here’s a report to help you quickly find these in your database.

Found under the Quality Assurance section of your database reports.

You could easily make this a custom report and have a child page that showed a computed DDL statement to build your index, or include an object hyperlink to the ‘offending’ table…

Top SQL – Tune It!

This report requires both the Diagnostic and Tuning Packs be licensed in the databases you want to run it. You can then ask for expensive queries by wait events over the past X seconds. And when you click one, you can see the SQL Tuning Advisor task output for your offending query.

It will prompt you for time in seconds to go back in Active Session History (ASH) .

I love the user-defined reports feature. Especially that you can build child/drill-down reports — this is very powerful and helpful. I use them all the time. You can even have child-reports that are PL-SQL based using dbms-output.

However, UNFORTUNATELY, I haven’t found a way to bypass the 20,000 character output limit. The normal limit is much bigger — but in these user defined reports I haven’t found a way to get by this 20,000 limit.